Sahih Muslim 2745

Translation

Allah is more pleased with the repentance of a believing servant than of a person who set out on a journey with a provision of food and drink on the back of his camel. He went on until he came to a waterless desert and he felt like sleeping. So he got down under the shade of a tree and was overcome by sleep and his camel ran away. As he got up he tried to see (the camel) standing upon a mound. but did not find it. He then got upon the other mound, but could not see anything. He then climbed upon the third mound but did not see anything until he came back to the place where he had been previously. And as he was sitting (in utter disappointment) there came to him the camel, till that (camel) placed its nosestring in his hand. Allah is more pleased with the repentance of His servant than the person who found (his lost camel) in this very state. Simak reported that Sha'bi was of the opinion that Nu'min traced it to Allah's Apostle ﷺ. Simak, however, did not hear that himself.

Notes

• قَالَ سِمَاكٌ فَزَعَمَ الشَّعْبِيُّ أَنَّ النُّعْمَانَ رَفَعَ هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ وَأَمَّا أَنَا فَلَمْ أَسْمَعْهُ

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 2744aSahih Muslim 2744cMusnad Ahmad 10782al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 19374al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 19397al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 20824

Narrators

1. 1
   al-Nuʿmān b. Bashīr al-Anṣārī

   He and his parents had companionship with the Prophet (ṣuḥbah)d. 60 AH, or: 64 AH, or: 65 AH, or: 66 AH
   النُّعْمَان بْن بَشِير الْأَنْصَارِيّله ولأبويه صحبة
   فقال
2. 2
   Simāk b. Ḥarb al-Bakrī

   Truthful (ṣadūq); his narrations from ʿIkrimah in particular are inconsistent (muḍṭarib); he changed (taghayyara) towards the end of his life, and at times he would accept prompting (yulaqqan).d. 123 AH
   سِمَاكٍصدوق , وروايته عن عكرمة خاصة مضطربة , وقد تغير بأخرة ، فكان ربما يلقن
   عن
3. 3
   Ḥātim b. Abī Ṣaghīrah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 141 AH and 150 AH
   أَبُو يُونُسَثقة
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Abī

   trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin)d. 195 AH, or 196 AH
   أَبِيثقة متقن
   حدثنا
5. 5
   ʿUbayd Allāh b. Muʿādh

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 237 AH or 238 AH; also said: 233 AH
   عُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُعَاذٍ الْعَنْبَرِيُّثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Muslim

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AH
   مُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه

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